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sasukechan111 — How to Color in GIMP Pt.1
Published: 2007-11-30 21:17:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 110632; Favourites: 1564; Downloads: 2085
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omg I made a tutorial for the GIMP~This part just has the skin coloring portion, next well be hair. I hope it's helpful to some people, if you have questions just ask away.
part 2 will be out in a couple days ( I have to leave right now so I don't have time to upload it)
EDITXXXX After you put your white layer under the linart layer MAKE SURE TO SET THE LINEART LAYER MODE TO MULTIPLY! sorry I forgot to put that on there.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Uber Eye Tut
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Alright first put your lineart on top then click the layer mode and choose multiply, that should fix it~
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nope didnt get fixed... 
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Well...I don't know what wrong, if you want you can send me the xcf file and I can try and see if I can fix it.
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ok..but what version of gimp do u use? the newest one or something else?
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ouhh k...i got it..but if i get the color outside the lines and i have a background also, the color of the background just blends with the other colors...also when i'm coloring other parts...
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Are you putting all the different things on different layers?
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hmmmmmm.....well i use one layer for the face, one for clothes, one for hair, and one for background...when i complete everything and do the background part, the color blends with all the other colors in the image
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Oh! Okay here what's you do: don't merge the layers. After you finish your drawing go to file>Save As and when the window pops up go to your drawing's file name and put "name.png" and then another window pops up and says something like png cannot handle layeres or what ever and then there are two options under that they're "Flatten image" and "mergevisible layers" choose either or (I don't think it matters) and then yet another window opens and all you have to do is click "OK"
That should solve your problem!
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wait..so ur saying tht when the png cannot handle layers box pops up, i should click anyone one of the 2 options?
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I usually choose the "merge layers" option. But for the most psrt I don't think it really matters.
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ok...btw (sorry i ask too many questions) are you able to color like this? -look at the part on the right side after the red line in the pic --> [link]
if so, pls tell me how ^^
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Well for starters it'd be a pain in the arse because Gimp doesn't have a watercolor tool (which is what looks like was used) but I think if you tried you could replicate it.
1st you'd definately need a tablet (and then you need to hassle with getting Gimp to register the pressure sensitivity which is also a lot of work...I had my sister figure it out) then you need a mastery of the smudge tool.
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damn...i'm trying to master the smudge tool..wheu you try to smudge it it becomes plain crap in the end X(
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: O The smudge tool is all mighty and all powerful!!!!1!! Do you play with the tool settings at all? That might be a reason it's not working out for you, try fidgeting with things like opacity and rate~
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lol i'll try to when i'm free XD yea..seriously....i'm rarely free..
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I know the feeling XD
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Thank you so much! This really helped me!~
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Yhis is great, I'm gonna try it and hope it works! XD
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when i try to fill anything with color it comes up grayscale, everything just a different shade of gray...help plz?
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aaah, waaait, i got stuck on how to put the new layer beneath the line art. can you explain? 
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have you read all the other comments/the whole discription.
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ya. and it seems that all the others knew what to do...TT^TT
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1st: Do you have the latest version of GIMP? 2nd: (if yes to the 1st) in the layer window at the bottom are several buttons. One is a down arrow. Click that and that should do the trick! But if you're using a bit older version then you need to right click your top layer and chose "Add Aphla Channel" that should let you put layers under the top one.
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1.) which one is it? i only have version 2 of GIMP.
2.) ooh~ ok. thanks!! :3 but now, i've already figured it so, im awfully sorry TTwTT
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....have you read the basic tuts on the gimp web site? Read those then come ask stupid question
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D< well excuse me for wasting ur time
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but i am only asking becuz i don't understand wut the site says.. sorry for being born with a learning disability, sorry for even trying to get help, sorry for even trying at all, sorry for being fucking born....then i would have never wasted ur precious damn time
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You should be sorry : )
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...and i can't beleive i had put u on my idols list...
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Thank you! I had all of the layers on top of my lineart. This is great. Thank you bunches. Nice tutorial. I hope I 
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what do you do if your lineart is on white rather than transparent?
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i'm another GIMP user and if its on white click on the pic and go to Layers>Transparency>colour to alpha and then pick white.
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Thank you so much for letting new GIMP users know this handy shortcut.
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